Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

The five new and improved national strategies will provide a coordinated national response to HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and STIs and a specific strategy targeting blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections in the Indigenous community. The BBV and STI strategies were launched by the federal health minister on 7 July 2014.

It is an important time to renew our efforts through the five national strategies, which have been endorsed by all state and territory health ministers. These include the Seventh National HIV Strategy, the Fourth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Blood-Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy, the Fourth National Hepatitis C Strategy, the Third National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy and the Second National Hepatitis B Strategy. The Australian government will continue to work in partnership with state and territory governments and key stakeholders through the recently released five national BBV and STI infection strategies.